Berken

Berken ranks 328th of 334 municipalities in the canton of Bern by number of parcels and holds less than 0.1% of the canton's parcels on less than 0.1% of its area. The median parcel in Berken measures 5’482 m², larger than the canton median of 1’131 m². Berken is less built-up than the canton as a whole: 20.2% of its parcels have a building, against 57.2% across the canton.

The zones with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (51.9%), uebriges Gebiet (32.6%) and Kiesabbau- und Ablagerungszone Sektor A (9.3%). In total, Berken uses 5 zone designations.

According to the building register, Berken has 69 buildings with 23 dwellings, 0.3 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (77.8%). Non-residential buildings account for 62.3% of all buildings.

Built parcels most often have their newest building from before 1920 (23.1% of them), and 15.4% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1956, is earlier than in the canton as a whole (1975).

geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Berken. Its parcel map shows the parcels of the official cadastral survey with their area, their zone from the municipal zoning plan and their buildings, on swisstopo maps. Building zones, the property map and the geodata of each parcel open on the geopool map. The ÖREB extract of a parcel (public-law restrictions on landownership) is in lookup.